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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Randy hate hearing from co-workers?

2. Why was Randy grateful for his cancer?

3. Why didn't Randy fight the double billing?

4. Why couldn't Randy tell his children all he wanted to?

5. How did Randy's landlord get hurt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Randy believe in peer evaluations?

2. Why did Randy not worry to much about Jai after his death?

3. How was Tommy able to achieve his goal?

4. How did Randy motivate his computer science class in 1997?

5. What did Randy do when he was billed twice at the grocery store?

6. What was the second head fake at the end of the lecture?

7. What was the Penguin Award?

8. What message did Randy leave when he went on his honeymoon?

9. What was Tommy's goal in life?

10. What was unique about Randy's computer science class in 1997?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of jobs did Randy hold in his life, and what did he learn from these positions?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

What significance did the stuffed animals have for Randy? Why?

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